Childminder's dog has bitten DD

[Jugglingitall85]

Last week my childminder's dog bit my DD on the face. What would you do? I feel like I have lost trust in their judgement and allowing this to happen.

@LandSharksAnonymous The childminder is to blame. You cannot expect a three year old to be reliable around dogs enough to never do anything the dog wouldn’t like. Even adults cannot be trusted to do things dogs don’t like and can’t read dog body language. Even the most chilled out dog could be unpredictable if they are in pain. This was an old dog and could very well be the case. They should have been separated, full stop.

My toddler dd was grazed on the face by a small dog in a similar way. He snapped at another dog and accidentally caught her with a tooth, he was snapping, not biting, and it wasn’t intended for her.
My friend had a rescue dog who would snap at your hand if you touched her when she was sleeping. She had been very badly treated by her previous owner, (dog was in the local paper as a severe cruelty case). We knew to always talk to her if she was asleep to wake her up, before trying to touch her. So there are scenarios where the dog is either snapping from pain or fright , as a warning. The childminder should have crated her dog or locked the door.

Well that's called 'natural selection' as far as I'm concerned. A wild animal may attack when threatened or provoked; a domesticated one has to learn they can't do that. That learning needs to happen before they are around children or are large enough to cause serious damage.

An animal cannot be 'secured away' and manage to bite a child; that's nonsensical. It is secure or it's not.

That said, breaking a dog's ribs is beyond 'provoking' so I agree that was a reasonable response to that event.

You are sounding utterly unhinged. At three years old, the tiny child is not responsible for anything. They are in the care of an adult who is responsible for them.

Are you so obsessed with dogs that you want to blame a toddler for a dog bite? Utterly bizarre.

If the dog didn’t do significant damage and it is out of character then pts is unfair. But it shouldn’t be near children and the owner should consider rehoming.

Has the OP even asked the childminder what extra protections she has put in place?

I dont think owning a dog is compatible with being a childminder

remove child from
setting

I think some of the responses are extreme. It's not necessarily a dangerous dog that needs to be pts, we don't know what happened. The issue was that the childminder allowed it to happened. I'd say that makes her the dangerous one!

But yes, needs reporting to ensure it does not happen again (I do not know, maybe someone on here can advise, but I would assume the dog is supposed to be segregated from the children in her care?)

Personally I love animals, have our own, but I don't leave my kids anywhere that has dogs without me because I know it only takes a second. When my mum has my kids the dogs go my sisters.

I think you are right to feel the trust is gone.

I hope your little girl is okay and it was minor and healing quickly.

Exactly this.

Of course it is. You are being gaslit. This horrible thing happened because dog was startled. Only noone saw. So that is just the narrative I want to believe and want you to believe. It is actually the truth.

Fuck that. She has no clue what happened. She was not watching and she left your precious child alone with an animal which should never have been in proximity. An animal which then bit your child's face.

You cannot realgo overboard in this situation. It is entirely appropriate to lose your shit.

Of a person allows an aggressive dog to be feeling to bite someone, it's a 5 year prison sentence and a £2000 fine.

You need to report it OP and find another childminder where she can be safe.

What an evil thing to do

She wont, shes being a keyboard warrior.

You don't know the full circumstances I'm sure the childminder is devastated enough etc
You don't have to ruin her life with putting it all over social media.
If she did not care less fair enough though I would not do this unless full circumstances known.

Of course it was on the CM to supervise and keep OP’s DD free from harm, OP is literally paying her to do so.

A 3 year old is impulsive and cannot be expected to be self regulating and self managing. They sometimes do unexpected things.

It’s natural DD might get bored and curious and for example want to see the dog or go into a different room.

The fact it wasn’t even witnessed says everything. I agree the CM should be reported and indeed should be reporting herself to Ofsted.

Dogs aren’t stuffed toys! She went into the room where the dog was put away, her mother shouldn’t have let her, the childminder had her dog away safely and as the mother already said it was growling so why would you allow your child into the dogs place?

What makes you think that the mother was there?

"The bite was in defence, apparently she ran into the room he was in and scared him but she didn’t see it happen, she came back saying it had. It’s broken the skin underneath her eye."

This thread is as reactive as a maddened pit bull. It should be taken to a vet ASAP.

"there are no two sides where a child in this environment is bitten by a dog"

spot on!

How's the mother supposed to supervise her child or the dog while she is at work and the child is at the childminders?
The dog obviously wasn't away safely if it bit a child.

You obviously did read properly! The dog was put away in another room the mother was there and the child went into the room where the dog was🙄

Not sure how you have extracted that from what I have written. The dog was not put safely away. He was in a communal room that was easily accessible and no I wasn’t there. My DD was fully in the childminders care.

Oh, the irony. You're making things up to suit the narrative in your head.

Re-read the part of the OP's post that I quoted above.

Whatever the reason is, it doesn’t matter, the fact remains that a dog bit a child. It can never be trusted again . The childminder is to blame for having it on the premises .

I was just about to post exactly the same scenario.... it was an unfortunate accident.

How did she run into the room the dog was in ?

edited as was in communal room. Dog was in wrong room. Not child